Chapter 48: Victory in defeat
After Wei Mingcha Ge sent the Iron Harrier soldiers to the south to reinforce the battlefield of Zangdihe City, the goddess of luck also quietly opened a little skirt to the Western Xia army. In the fierce camp offensive and defensive battle, a group of Western Xia army Bubazi, who had crossed the trench from the trench bridges and chariots, created a miracle through hard fighting, and fought a bloody road in the Song army's antlers resisting horses. He used an iron hook to pull over a fence about two meters wide, opening the road to the inside of the Song army's camp.
Seeing this, the nearby Song army soldiers were of course scattered. Without the order from the general above, they rushed up to reinforce with a knife without hesitation. The heavy infantry of the Song army, who served as the general reserve team of the entire army, urgently assigned a battalion of 500 people to dispatch, wearing a 58-jin-People-Armed Infantry, which weighed 58 Song Jin, rushed to make up for the leak, but because the distance was long and the maneuvering speed was too slow, it was difficult to reach for a while.
Seeing this, all the soldiers of the Xixia army on both sides cheered loudly, and they rushed to reinforce with red eyes, trying to continue to tear the gap wide and completely open the road to the Song army camp. Wei Mingcha Ge did not hesitate and immediately shouted loudly: "Puxi Army is dispatched! Cover our army's Bubazi attack on the camp!"
The order was conveyed that another ace army in the Western Xia army, the Paxi Army, was also dispatched urgently. This was a rare army with a smaller number than the Iron Harrier Scout Army. It consisted of only two hundred camels and more than a thousand soldiers. However, each camel's hump was equipped with a reduced version of the seven-slight cannon trencher. Not only was the weight far lighter than the catapult, but it could also continuously fire fist-sized stone bullets. When these two hundred reduced versions of the catapults joined the battlefield and quickly threw stone bullets, the overwhelming rain of stone bullets covered the heads of the Song army soldiers who were already in chaos.
The big stone bullet with a fist is not big or small. The non-fatal point that hits the Song army soldiers from the sky will only cause unbearable pain, leaving a piece of bruise on the skin, and it will break a bone. However, once it hits the head and face of the Song army soldiers, it will be the lightest that it will smash the Song army soldiers into black eyes, dizzy, and temporarily lose their combat power. If it is heavy, it can directly smash the Song army soldiers' faces, blood sprayed on their mouths and noses, and even kill them directly.
In front of the stone bullets that were as dense as raindrops and hail, the first thing to do was to make up for the leaks, the Song army's light infantry soon became in chaos, and Zhongshi fell to the ground and could no longer effectively resist the desperate attack of the Western Xia army. The Western Xia army took the opportunity to fight to the death, killing the Song army soldiers guarding behind the fence backwards, squeezing into the camp little by little, and tearing the gap little by little, and in a moment it widened the gap in the Song army's fence defense line to about four feet.
Fortunately, the heavy infantry of the Song army was dispatched in time. Even though it moved much slower than ordinary infantry, it still rushed to the scene before the Song army collapsed. Then the five hundred heavy infantry of the Song army shouted together, and immediately strode towards the sea of swords and guns on the opposite side. They fought with the Western Xia army's light infantry in front of the fence gap with the stone bullets that the Pixi Army kept smashing. They also relied on their equipment to quickly stabilize the already shaky defense line, and then stepped forward desperately to compete with the Western Xia army for position space.
"Swoosh-!swoosh-!swoosh-!"
At this time, the Song army's primitive gunpowder weapon, gunpowder arrows were also dispatched urgently, concentrating firepower to shoot the camels of the Pixi Army, using arrowheads to shoot dead and wound the Pixi Army soldiers, and using the spray flames to burn the Pixi Army's camels, which successfully caused many camels to run in a mess. The pressure of the Song army soldiers at the gap in the fence was greatly reduced, and they began to use their military strength to launch a counterattack. While struggling to chop and kill the Xixia soldiers who were trying to enter the camp, they also worked hard to set up deer antlers to block the gap.
Finally, relying on the death of the heavy infantry of the Song army and the protection of the crossbowmen of the Song army, the troops of Wang Dehou of the Song army survived the crisis without any danger. Under the cover of the heavy infantry of the Song army, a deer antler resisted the horse to temporarily block the enemy, and then quickly nailed the wood and set up the fence again, blocking the gap that was broken through by the enemy because of a temporary carelessness.
Seeing this, Wang Dehou, the general of the Song army, who personally commanded the battle of the camp at a high place, breathed a sigh of relief, with his expression and mood very much gladness, but Brother Wei Mingcha looked as usual. While withdrawing the Poxi Army, he asked the camel to rest and replenish the stone bullet, he said lightly: "It's a pity, but it doesn't matter. You can block the first time, you can't block the second time and the third time. Today, I have broken the final order in your camp."
The soldiers of the Western Xia army did not disappoint Wei Mingcha Ge. Even when they encountered a setback, the brave and good warriors of the Western Xia army quickly regained their spirits and continued to attack the west gate and north gate of the Song army camp protected by water in the east. At the same time, they deliberately left the south gate to prevent attack, so as to shake the Song army's determination to defend the camp and encourage the Song army soldiers to abandon the camp and flee south.
I appreciated the scene of the charges of the Western Xia soldiers one after another. Although I felt sorry that the casualties were slightly larger than I expected, Brother Wei Mingcha did not waver at all. He also said in a low smile: "Let's jump over the wall with all my heart. When my Iron Harrier returns triumphantly, throw your captured military flags at your camp gate to see how much morale you still have. Well, Iron Harrier has been south for more than an hour, and it's time to break the siege queue of the Song people."
"Report——!"
It was also coincidental that Wei Mingcha Ge finally took time to care about the war situation in the south, a scout of the Western Xia army suddenly rushed to the front of the flag formation. The scout quickly dismounted and fell off the horse in a panic, and then stumbled to Wei Mingcha Ge. Wei Mingcha Ge also frowned when he saw it and asked, "What are you doing? You can fall off the horse? What happened? You are so panicked?"
"King Jin, something is wrong!" The scout said with a crying voice, and screamed in a shrill voice: "Our iron kite was ambushed by the Song people and was defeated by the Song people!"
"What?!" Wei Mingcha almost suspected that he had heard the wrong ears, and asked continuously, "Our Iron Harrier was ambushed? The terrain on the south is wide, and even if there are some trees on the mountains on both sides are not dense, how could the Iron Harrier be ambushed? Also, even if Song Manzi had ambushed, how could he kill our Iron Harrier?"
"King of Jin, the Manzi of Song was not ambushing on the road, but ambushing under the city!" The scout's voice became even more shrill, and he said with tears in his eyes: "When our iron kite was about to rush to the wings of the Song people to attack the city, the Song people's light cavalry lined up in the open east suddenly rushed out, rushed to our iron kite, and threw out countless burning fire bombs. Not only did the fire bombs hit our iron kite, it would burn a big fire, but how could it be destroyed? Our iron kite soldiers were burned to chaos by the strange fire bombs and were completely defeated!"
An incredible expression completely frozen on Wei Mingcha Ge's face, and the generals of the Xixia army on both sides were stunned and speechless. They couldn't believe that there was such a strange thing in the world - the Song army could actually defeat the trump card Iron Harrier Soldiers of their own army with light cavalry?
"Le Kecha, lead three thousand light cavalry to dispatch!" The famous general was a famous general. After a little lost, Wei Mingcha quickly came to his senses and shouted with a pale face: "Go south immediately to meet our Iron Harrier Scouts, and we must rescue our Iron Harrier Scouts as much as possible."
Le Kecha, named by Wei Mingcha, agreed with his fists and immediately ran down to lead the light cavalry to the south urgently. The other Xixia generals next to him asked carefully: "King Jin, will you still attack?"
"Continue attack! We must strengthen the offensive!" Brother Wei Mingcha roared from his teeth, "Walking here, the Song people didn't have time to know the situation, try to take down our camp with all their might and avenge our Iron Harrier soldiers!"
Wei Mingcha Ge looked a little at this point Wang Dehou, the general of the Song army who was also experienced in many battles. Seeing the Western Xia army's light cavalry dispatched urgently at a high place in the camp, Wang Dehou immediately flashed his question and said intimately: "What's wrong? Didn't the pseudo-Xia thief army send the Iron Harrier Scout just now? Why did he send the Light Cavalry again? Could it be that Liu Zhongwu was not bragging in the letter, and he had really found a way to deal with Iron Harrier?"
After thinking about this, Wang Dehou also made a decisive decision without confirming the situation on the battlefield in the south, and the victory was won by the entire army, and the pseudo-Xia bandit army could not hold on for long. If you defend the camp, you will be victorious!"
It's not bad, after Wang Dehou's order was issued entirely based on conjecture, it really inspired the morale of the Song army soldiers. With the great boost of morale, the Song army soldiers became more tenacious and tenacious in fighting. With the thin battalion defense fortifications, they resolutely withstood the sudden and fierce offensive of the Xixia army. Even if the Western Xia army occasionally breaks through the fence, they can quickly fill in the gaps and seal the gaps. The quick action even makes Wei Mingcha unable to find the opportunity to join the Xi army.
What should come will always come. After a while, the defeated Iron Harrier Scouts, who were disguised as armor, finally fled back to the main formation of the Xixia Army brigade under the cover of its own light cavalry. As a result, seeing the majestic Iron Harrier Scouts when they set off, the Western Xia army was of course in a big uproar, and the morale suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley. The Song army soldiers in the camp were cheering like thunder, and their morale became even higher. With the complete outbreak of fighting spirit, they not only completely stabilized the fence defense line, but also killed the Western Xia soldiers with an extremely fierce offensive and retreated repeatedly, seeing the dawn of victory in the camp.
He looked at the Iron Harrier Army who was fleeing in a panic. After patrolling for a while, he did not see Wei Ming Dingdong's eagle flag. He made a preliminary estimate and found that less than a thousand people left of three thousand iron Harriers fled back. Wei Mingcha's lips and body trembled together, and his heart was bleeding. After a while, he spoke hard and asked Meile, the captain of the Iron Harrier Army's first team who rushed over and knelt in front of him, and said, "Where is Wei Ming Dingdong? How is he doing?"
"Report to King Jin, I don't know." With tears in his eyes, the burly girl cried like a child, and replied in a hoarse voice: "When Mo Jiang retreated, he only saw his eagle flag still on the battlefield, surrounded by the light cavalry of the Song people, and there were fires everywhere around him. Later, Mo Jiang never saw his flag again."
"It seems that there is so much danger." Wei Mingcha sighed in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Tell me specifically, how did you lose?"
After hearing the sister involved in the matter, Wei Mingcha Ge completely understood the causes and consequences of the Iron Harrier Army's defeat, and then said with a dark face: "Etiron Harrier Army, even if it can be rebuilt, it must change its system and can no longer connect the war horses to the formation. Moreover, even if it is a single cavalry, it must not directly attack the front of the Song people's positions with deer antlers and heavy infantry protection. Otherwise, once it is stopped by the Song people's heavy infantry, the Iron Harrier we rode on the horse will still be the living target of the Song people's fire bombs."
"I can't even fight alone again." Wei Mingcha Ge added to his heart, "Without the light cavalry's crossbow cover, even when we arrived at the open battlefield, our slow heavy cavalry could still be severely damaged by the Song people's light cavalry with this strange fireball."
After remembering these experiences and lessons in my heart, Wei Mingcha Ge endured his grief and ordered: "Ming Jin to withdraw the troops. The Song people's camp will not be fought. Our army's morale is depressed, but the Song people are very motivated. If they continue to fight, not only will there be no hope, but they are also destined to have greater casualties."
According to Wei Ming Cha Ge's order, the sound of bronze horns quickly sounded in the Xixia army's positions. The soldiers of the Xixia army who had been killed by the Song army were as if they were amnesty. They quickly threw down their attacking weapons and ran back. The Song army soldiers were even more cheerful. While laughing, they shot arrows and crossbows desperately, shooting defeated soldiers of the Xixia army on the way to retreat. Wang Dehou even laughed wildly on the command platform, "Okay! OK! I didn't expect that Liu Zhongwu could really kill Iron Harrier! Kill Iron Harrier and take Zangdihe City. We will definitely win this battle! We will definitely win!"
On the side of the Xixia Army Flag Formation, after seeing the soldiers of the self-striking camp retreating back to the team, a general of the Xixia Army suddenly remembered a big event and hurriedly asked Wei Mingcha Ge: "Master, what should I do if Zangdihe City? Without our reinforcements to rescue, we saw our Iron Harrier Army defeated, Zangdihe City would be difficult to stop the attack of the Song people?"
"King of Jin, why don't you send a group of troops to bring back the defenders of Zangdihe City?" Another general of the Xixia army also said quickly: "It's not half past now, so we still have time to bring back the defenders of Zangdihe City."
Brother Wei Mingcha felt it was reasonable when he heard this. He nodded and agreed. Suddenly he suddenly remembered a big thing and asked, "What did you say just now? The last sentence."
"Reporting to the King of Jin, the last general said just now, it's only half past, and we still have time to bring back the defenders of Zangdihe City." The Xixia general replied inexplicably.
"It's half past?"
After retelling these four words in his heart, he looked up at the sky. Seeing that the sun was indeed not far west, there was still some time before the sky was dark. A bold idea suddenly jumped into Wei Mingcha's mind. After quickly calculating and deducing it, Wei Mingcha made up his mind and said, "Don't pay attention to Zangdihe City, let them continue to defend the city. How long can they last? If they really can't defend, they will decide whether to break through."
"King of Jin, those are more than three thousand soldiers!" The general of the Xixia army who reminded the time said in a trembling voice.
"It's just more than three thousand troops." Wei Ming Cha Ge said coldly: "The heavy infantry of the Song people is not for a good meal. We sent troops south to meet the defenders of Zangdihe City, and we may have suffered more casualties than those of the defenders in the city. Don't worry about them anymore, retreat immediately, and then regroup immediately."
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At the same time, after successfully defeating the number one ace Tie Harrier of the Western Xia army, the high-spirited troops of the Song army Liu Zhongwu also launched the most fierce attack on Zangdihe City under the personal command of Liu Zhongwu. Before the Song army engineers dug out the loess walls of Zangdihe City, they succeeded many times with the simplicity of flying ladder ants. Although they were soon repelled by the Xixia defenders, they also showed high fighting spirit and saw the dawn of victory in the siege.
To put it simply, don’t underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Song army’s Western Army. The first battle of Zangdihe City in history was that the Song army was defeated due to the timely reinforcements of the main forces of Xixia. However, during the second Zangdihe City two years later, the Song army successfully captured the military fortress and pulled out the nail that the Xixia army nailed to the south of Hengshan.
Back to the point, during this period, Zhao Rong and Zhao Dalangjun, who accompanied Liu Qi to successfully defeat the Tie Yao Scouts, certainly had nothing to do. In addition to using a telescope to check the siege of the Song army soldiers, the Song army scouts who were constantly traveling north and south to inquire about the situation in the north. The Song army scouts told the truth in view of the general seal sent by Zhao Rongliang. Then, it was natural that not long after, the main force of the Western Xia army gave up attacking Wang Dehou's camp and retreated back to the camp, and Zhao Rong found out from the Song army scouts.
With extraordinary talent, Zhao Rong was not only overjoyed when he heard this good news, but also slightly stunned and said, "The pseudo-Xia thief army has all retreated? Didn't he send an army to take over the Zangdihe City defenders to retreat?"
"Report to the general, no." The scout answered truthfully, and bowed and said, "General, the villain is going to report this military information to the general, so I will say goodbye first."
After saying that, the scout of the Song army rushed away, while Zhao Rong stopped the horse and thought to himself: "What the hell is Brother Weimingcha doing? There is still plenty of time now, and he can dispatch a large number of troops to go south to meet the defenders of Zangdihe City out of the city to break through. Why did he directly give up the defenders of Zangdihe City? More than 3,000 troops are nothing to our Song Dynasty, but the total population of the pseudo-Xia is only about three million, so Brother Weimingcha doesn't feel distressed?"
In addition to being talented in military affairs, Zhao Rong is also very good at reasoning and analyzing from the perspective of others, and said in his heart: "If I were Wei Mingcha Brother, why would I do this? It is of course possible that the pseudo-Xia defenders in Zangdihe City consumed our siege troops, but the pseudo-Xia thief army has not yet figured out a way to crack our pointed wooden donkey. Wei Mingcha Brother thieves should be very clear about this. He is so confident that the Zangdihe City army has long defended the city and consumed a lot of our troops?"
"I'm afraid that Wang Dehou will take the opportunity to attack his army, Wei Mingcha Ge's troops are far above Wang Dehou's, and the number of cavalry has an absolute advantage. It can completely divide the army into two, and the troops will monitor Wang Dehou's camp, and the troops will go south to meet the defenders of Zangdihe City to break through? Could it be that the Western Xia thief army is tired? The soldiers' physical strength is seriously consumed in the attack camp, so Wei Mingcha Ge dare not divide the troops? But it's still wrong. The pseudo-Xia thief army is semi-nova and half farming. The soldiers eat much more meat and milk than the soldiers of our farming nation, and their physical endurance is much stronger than ours?"
"Wait! Physical strength!"
Suddenly thinking about physical strength and taking into account the time issue that has passed, a dangerous answer suddenly appeared in Zhao Rong's mind, making Zhao Rong unable to help but say in his heart: "Can Brother Wei Mingcha want to win in one move and turn the whole battle situation again?"
Thinking of this danger, Zhao Rong did not dare to be careless. Because he was ordered to assist Liu Qi in commanding the troops today, he could not leave the army and return to the flag formation to advise Liu Zhongwu. He could only hurriedly find a dead horse of the Xixia army that fell to the ground, took out a piece of paper, cut the horse's corpse with a knife, and quickly wrote a letter on the battlefield with a horse's blood.
Then, Zhao Rong quickly ran back to Liu Qi and said to Liu Qi: "Four Generals, lend me one of your personal soldiers and let him go north immediately and use your reputation to hand this letter to General Wang Dehou. You are the son of General Liu. I guess General Wang will give you face and read your letter immediately."
"What letter?"
Chapter completed!